When we do not expect anything, we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time. —Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

In this class series, we will study selections from Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind, Not Always So, Crooked Cucumber and unpublished lectures of Suzuki Roshi that exemplify his teaching. Suzuki Roshi's lectures are written in his own inimitable, allusive and paradoxical style. We will engage one another in a rich discussion of his wholehearted expression of his rich life.

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Rinso Ed Sattizahn (Abiding Abbot, City Center)After meeting Suzuki Roshi in 1970, Rinso Ed Sattizahn lived at Tassajara and later served as Zen Center's vice president, president, and board chair. From 1983 to 2000 Ed held various executive positions in the microcomputer software industry. In 2003, he was shuso at Green Gulch Farm, and in the same year co-founded Vimala Sangha in Mill Valley with Lew Richmond. Now an ordained priest with dharma transmission (from Lew Richmond), he remains the guiding teacher at Vimala Sangha Mill Valley. He became abiding abbot of Zen Center's City Center in March 2014.